Two Unconventional Orchestral Works
Hear music of vast scale and ravishing textures in works by the Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir for this New Sounds program. It’s music that has been reflected through the nature prism; that...
View ArticleVoices from the East
This week, host Bill McGlaughlin explores the music of composers who struggled for artistic freedom on both sides of the Iron Curtain, including Arvo Pärt, Sofia Gubaidulina, György Ligeti, and Giya...
View ArticleNew Sounds Live: The Hilliard Ensemble Farewell
From the New Sounds Live concert series, recorded live at the Temple of Dendur in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, listen to the all-male band of British a cappella singers, The Hilliard Ensemble....
View ArticleCycling Music
Hear music created by a cyclical approach to composition: some of it driven by technology, whereby layering, looping, or overdubbing are used to fit patterns against one another. Listen to works from...
View ArticleCycling Music (Special Podcast)
Hear music created by a cyclical approach to composition: some of it driven by technology, whereby layering, looping, or overdubbing are used to fit patterns against one another. Listen to works from...
View Article3 Videos You Had to See Online This Weekend
From the sublime to the truly ridiculous, here are three moments that had classical music and opera fans talking this weekend.1. Jonas Kaufmann: Tenor, Wagnerian, Underwear MagnetThe Last Night of the...
View ArticleChoral Music from Latvia and Estonia
Listen to choral music from the Baltic region on this New Sounds, specifically, from Latvia and Estonia. Hear music by Estonian composers Veljo Tormis, and Arvo Pärt, as well as a Latvian choir singing...
View Article#3541: Two Unconventional Orchestral Works
Hear music of vast scale and ravishing textures in works by the Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir for this New Sounds program. It’s music that has been reflected through the nature prism; that...
View Article#3563: New Sounds Live: The Hilliard Ensemble Farewell
From the New Sounds Live concert series, recorded live at the Temple of Dendur in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, listen to the all-male band of British a cappella singers, The Hilliard Ensemble....
View ArticleListen: Anne Sofie von Otter Spans Centuries of Songs
In addition to performing at the world's leading opera houses and concert halls, Swedish Mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter has also recorded an album of Swedish folk songs, worked with renowned jazz...
View Article#3754: Cycling Music
Hear music created by a cyclical approach to composition: some of it driven by technology, whereby layering, looping, or overdubbing are used to fit patterns against one another. Listen to works from...
View Article#3773: Choral Music from Latvia and Estonia
Listen to choral music from the Baltic region on this New Sounds, specifically, from Latvia and Estonia. Hear music by Estonian composers Veljo Tormis, and Arvo Pärt, as well as a Latvian choir singing...
View Article#3954: Music for Bowed Strings and Voices
Listen to works all built around sounds of strings with & without voices, with music from Icelandic composers, Úlfur Hansson and Atli Heimir Sveinsson, a piece from an American-based British...
View Article#3963: Steve Reich's 80th Birthday Season
On the cusp of a series of four concerts at Carnegie Hall involving contemporaries, favorites, and later generations of composers, Steve Reich visits the studio, marking the celebration of his 80th...
View Article#3977: New Music From Estonia
Hear music by Estonian composers Arvo Pärt and Mirjam Tally, as well as music from the late Estonian composer Veljo Tormis, who died in early 2017. Listen to a “lament for the living” by Estonian...
View ArticleMystical Music Through Time
The right music at the right moment can be an almost mystical experience. But some music is specifically meant to be mystical in nature. You find this in the music of the Eastern Orthodox church, in...
View Article#4007: July 2017 New Releases
It’s the most wonderful time of the month on New Sounds – the new releases show! On tap is music for the Portland State Chamber Choir with Native American flute, and recordings that pair Scandinavian...
View ArticleThree Generations: The Music of Pärt, Glass and Reich
Minimalism takes center stage during this episode of Carnegie Hall Live, as it was at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall this past April. The evening featured the music of Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass and Steve Reich....
View ArticleMusical Mystics
Although Western classical music, with its Requiems, Masses, spiritual oratorios and the like, grew out of a sacred (Christian) music tradition, it doesn’t have too many composers you could say were...
View ArticleA World Apärt: 24-Hour Arvo Pärt Marathon
On Sept. 11, celebrate the 80th birthday of Arvo Pärt with a repeat stream of A World Apärt: a 24-hour sonic survey of the music of one of the most revolutionary voices of the 21st century. Hosted by...
View ArticleListen: Arvo Pärt at 80 with New Juilliard Ensemble
On Friday, Sept. 11 at 7 pmET, celebrate the 80th birthday of Arvo Pärt with a live audio webcast of the New Juilliard Ensemble's sold-out show from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Temple of Dendur...
View ArticleArvo Pärt @ 81: 24-Hour Marathon
On September 11, Q2 Music celebrates the 81st birthday of beloved Estonian composer Arvo Pärt with a 24-hour marathon of his music, hosted by Phil Kline and featuring new recordings released to...
View ArticleListen: Sound and Fury with Norman, Pärt, Gordon and Shostakovich
On March 31, 2016, the ambitious chamber group Ensemble LPR presented "Sound and Fury," an evening of music by Andrew Norman, Michael Gordon, Arvo Pärt and Dmitri Shostakovich.The through line of the...
View Article#3754: Cycling Music
Hear music created by a cyclical approach to composition: some of it driven by technology, whereby layering, looping, or overdubbing are used to fit patterns against one another. Listen to works from...
View Article#4083: New Music From Estonia
Hear a broad survey of music - folk, jazz, and contemporary classical traditions, along with some electronic music - from the Baltic nation of Estonia for this New Sounds. (The 100th anniversary of...
View Article#3773: Choral Music from Latvia and Estonia
Listen to choral music from the Baltic region on this New Sounds, specifically, from Latvia and Estonia. Hear music by Estonian composers Veljo Tormis, and Arvo Pärt, as well as a Latvian choir singing...
View Article#3954: Music for Bowed Strings and Voices
Listen to works all built around sounds of strings with & without voices, with music from Icelandic composers, Úlfur Hansson and Atli Heimir Sveinsson, a piece from an American-based British...
View Article#4127: Idiosyncratic Chamber Music
Chamber ensembles have been around for centuries, with one instrument to a part, but on this episode of New Sounds, we will hear chamber ensembles that are testing the limits of what this kind of group...
View Article#3977: New Music From Estonia
Hear music by Estonian composers Arvo Pärt and Mirjam Tally, as well as music from the late Estonian composer Veljo Tormis, who died in early 2017. Listen to a “lament for the living” by Estonian...
View ArticleNew, Newer, Newest: The Chill Factor
So what's sounding new on New Sounds Radio? If you're looking for genre-free, hand-picked, ear-catching, other-hyphened-word music then we are your friends and your ears and brain will thank you for...
View ArticleEstonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and the Talinn Chamber Orchestraat the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, Mon., Nov. 12Tickets: $27-$88. Show at 8 pm. The Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has spent the last...
View Article#4083: New Music From Estonia
Hear a broad survey of music - folk, jazz, and contemporary classical traditions, along with some electronic music - from the Baltic nation of Estonia for this New Sounds. There’s music by prominent...
View Article#4127: Idiosyncratic Chamber Music
Chamber ensembles have been around for centuries, with one instrument to a part, but on this episode of New Sounds, we will hear chamber ensembles that are testing the limits of what this kind of group...
View Article#3954: Music for Bowed Strings and Voices
Listen to works all built around sounds of strings with & without voices, with music from Icelandic composers, Úlfur Hansson and Atli Heimir Sveinsson, a piece from an American-based British...
View Article#4272: Sonic Cathedrals
For this New Sounds, listen to massive pieces of sonic architecture – like cathedrals in music by Estonian Arvo Pärt, English composer Thomas Tallis, and in music by the Franco-Flemish composer...
View Article25. On What Changed My Life
“If the lights were on in the audience, listening to this music I would just be flayed open...”Children’s author and television producer Megan Reid talks about how a performance of choreographer...
View Article#3977: New Music From Estonia
Hear music by Estonian composers Arvo Pärt and Mirjam Tally, as well as music from the late Estonian composer Veljo Tormis, who died in early 2017. Listen to a “lament for the living” by Estonian...
View Article#4366, Music for Multiples
Hear Steve Reich’s “Vermont Counterpoint,” from Claire Chase, a work by Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy featuring multiple violas of Nadia Sirota with multiple violas da gamba of Liam Byrne, and a work...
View Article#4272: Sonic Cathedrals
For this New Sounds, listen to massive pieces of sonic architecture – like cathedrals in music by Estonian Arvo Pärt, English composer Thomas Tallis, and in music by the Franco-Flemish composer...
View Article#4083: New Music From Estonia
Hear a broad survey of music - folk, jazz, and contemporary classical traditions, along with some electronic music - from the Baltic nation of Estonia for this New Sounds. There’s music by prominent...
View Article#4127: Idiosyncratic Chamber Music
Chamber ensembles have been around for centuries, with one instrument to a part, but on this episode of New Sounds, we will hear chamber ensembles that are testing the limits of what this kind of group...
View Article#4337: Music for Strings
Once upon a time, many centuries ago, someone looked a stringed hunting bow and thought: “Hmmm… I think I’d rather use this thing to make music rather than hurl arrows”.And thus began one of the first...
View Article#4366, Music for Multiples
Hear Steve Reich’s “Vermont Counterpoint,” from Claire Chase, a work by Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy featuring multiple violas of Nadia Sirota with multiple violas da gamba of Liam Byrne, and a work...
View Article#4530, Choral Music
Hear mostly sacred choral music for this New Sounds, including Christian and Buddhist prayer set to music, along with work that bridges the worlds of Christian and Buddhist prayer by...
View Article#4272: Sonic Cathedrals
For this New Sounds, listen to massive pieces of sonic architecture – like cathedrals in music by Estonian Arvo Pärt, English composer Thomas Tallis, and in music by the Franco-Flemish composer...
View Article#4337: Music for Strings
Once upon a time, many centuries ago, someone looked a stringed hunting bow and thought: “Hmmm… I think I’d rather use this thing to make music rather than hurl arrows”.And thus began one of the first...
View Article#4366, Music for Multiples
Hear Steve Reich’s “Vermont Counterpoint,” from Claire Chase, a work by Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy featuring multiple violas of Nadia Sirota with multiple violas da gamba of Liam Byrne, and a work...
View Article#4530, Choral Music
Hear mostly sacred choral music for this New Sounds, including Christian and Buddhist prayer set to music, along with work that bridges the worlds of Christian and Buddhist prayer by...
View Article#4530, Choral Music
Hear mostly sacred choral music for this New Sounds, including Christian and Buddhist prayer set to music, along with work that bridges the worlds of Christian and Buddhist prayer by...
View ArticleTom Hiddleston on Arvo Pärt and the Infinite
Tom Hiddleston is an actor beloved around the world for his roles in film, television, and the stage, most notably for his portrayal of the Norse god Loki in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Before all...
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